• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.581-590
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• 2014

This study investigates the impact of tweets on box office revenue. Specifically, the study focuses on the times when tweets were written by examining the impact of pre- and post-consumption tweets on box office revenue; an examination that is based on Expectation Confirmation Theory. The study also investigates the impact of intention tweets versus subjective tweets and the impact of negative tweets on box office revenue. Targeting 120 movies released in the US between February and August 2012, this study collected tweet information on a daily basis from two weeks before the opening until the closing and box office revenue information. The results indicate that the disconfirmation that occurs in relation to the total number of pre-consumption tweets for a movie has a negative impact on box office revenue. This premise suggests that the formation of higher expectations of a movie does not always result in positive results in situations where tweets on perceived movie quality after watching spread rapidly. This study also reveals that intention tweets have stronger effects on box office revenue than subjective tweets.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.712-720
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• 2022

The use of social media to disseminate news and interact with project stakeholders is increasing over time in the construction industry. Such social media data can be analyzed to get useful insights of the industry such as demands of new housing construction and satisfaction of construction workers. However, there has been a limited attempts to analyze social media data related to the construction industry. The objective of this study is to collect and analyze construction related tweets to understand the overall sentiments of individuals and organizations about the construction industry. The study collected 87,244 tweets from April 6, 2020, to April 13, 2020, which had hashtags relevant to the construction industry. The tweets were then analyzed to evaluate its sentiments polarity (positive or negative) and sentiment intensity or scores (-1 to +1). Descriptive statistics were produced for the tweets and the sentiment scores were visualized in a scatterplot to show the trend of the sentiment scores over time. The results shows that the overall sentiment score of all the tweets was slightly positive (0.0365). Negative tweets were retweeted and marked as favorite by more users on average than the positive ones. More specifically, the tweets with negative sentiments were retweeted by 2,802 users on average compared to the tweets with positive sentiments (247 average retweet count). This study can potentially be expanded in the future to produce a real time indicator of the construction market industry such as the increased availability of construction jobs, improved wage rates, and recession.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2018

트위터 사용자는 팔로우, 리트윗 등을 사용하여 자신이 관심 있어 하는 트윗을 찾는다. 하지만 사용자가 3억여 명에 달하는 트위터에서 사용자가 관심 있는 트윗을 찾기는 힘든 일이다. 이를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 사용자 맞춤형 트윗 추천 시스템을 개발하였다. 우선, 사용자에게 추천할 수 있을 만한 가치가 있는 트윗을 수집하기 위해 현재 트랜드를 수집하고, 트랜드에 대해 이야기하는 인기 있는 트윗들을 수집한다. 이후 사용자를 분석하고 맞춤형 트윗을 추천하기 위해 사용자의 트윗과 수집한 트윗을 범주화한다. 최종적으로 웹서비스를 이용하여 사용자에게 본인과 카테고리가 일치하는 트윗과 관심사가 일치하는 사용자를 추천해준다. 결과적으로 67.2%로 적절한 트윗을 추천하였다.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.48-60
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• 2017

The purpose of this paper is to understand the profiles of users and their motivations in sharing research articles on Twitter. The goal is to contribute to the understanding of Twitter as a new altmetric measure for assessing impact of research articles. In this paper, we extended the previous study of tweet motivations by finding out the profiles of twitter users. In particular, we examined six characteristics of users: gender, geographic distribution, academic, non-academic, individual, and organization. Out of several, we would like to highlight here three key findings. First, a great majority of users (86%) were from North America and Europe indicating the possibility that, if in general, tweets for research articles are mainly in English, Twitter as an alternative metric has a Western bias. Second, several previous altmetrics studies suggested that tweets, and altmetrics in general, do not indicate scholarly impact due to their low correlation with citation counts. This study provides further details in this aspect by revealing that most tweets (77%) were by individual users, 67% of whom were nonacademic. Therefore, tweets mostly reflect impact of research articles on the general public, rather than on academia. Finally, analysis from profiles and motivations showed that the majority of tweets (from 42% to 57%) in all user types highlighted the summary or findings of the article indicating that tweets are a new way of communicating research findings.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.287-294
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• 2015

We are living in epoch of information when Internet touches all aspects of our lives. Therefore, it provides a plenty of services each of which benefits people in different ways. Electronic Mail (E-mail), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Voice/Video Communication, Search Engines are bright examples of Internet services. Between them Social Network Services (SNS) continuously gain its popularity over the past years. Most popular SNSs like Facebook, Weibo and Twitter generate millions of data every minute. Twitter is one of SNS which allows its users post short instant messages. They, 100 million, posted 340 million tweets per day (2012)[1]. Often big amount of data contains lots of noisy data which can be defined as uninteresting and unclassifiable data. However, researchers can take advantage of such huge information in order to analyze and extract meaningful and interesting features. The way to collect SNS data as well as tweets is handled by crawlers. Twitter crawler has recently emerged as a great tool to crawl Twitter data as well as tweets. In this project, we develop Twitter Crawler system which enables us to extract Twitter data. We implemented our system in Java language along with MySQL. We use Twitter4J which is a java library for communicating with Twitter API. The application, first, connects to Twitter API, then retrieves tweets, and stores them into database. We also develop crawling strategies to efficiently extract tweets in terms of time and amount.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2014

Previous studies of the Korean wave have focused mainly on fan clubs by taking an ethnographic approach in the context of countries in Southeast Asia and, in a minor extension, Europe. This study fills the gap in the literature by providing a social network analysis of Tweets in the context of Mexico. We used the Twitter API in order to collect Twitter comments with the hashtag #kpop from March to August 2012, analyzing them with a set of webometric methodologies. The results indicate that #kpop power Twitterians in Mexico were more likely to be related to the public television broadcast. The sent Tweets were usually related to their programs and promotion for Kpop artists. These Tweets tended to be positive, and according to URLs, not only Kpop but also Korean dramas had considerable influence on the Korean wave in Mexico.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.128-136
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• 2016

It is impossible for any human being to analyze the more than 500 million tweets that are generated per day. Lexical ambiguities on Twitter make it difficult to retrieve the desired data and relevant topics. Most of the solutions for the word sense disambiguation problem rely on knowledge base systems. Unfortunately, it is expensive and time-consuming to manually create a knowledge base system, resulting in a knowledge acquisition bottleneck. To solve the knowledge-acquisition bottleneck, a topic signature is used to disambiguate words. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of various features of newspapers on the topic signature extraction for word sense discrimination in tweets. Based on our results, topic signatures obtained from a snippet feature exhibit higher accuracy in discriminating company names than those from the article body. We conclude that topic signatures extracted from news articles improve the accuracy of word sense discrimination in the automated analysis of tweets.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.69-73
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• 2011

Twitter is a microblogging service that allows its user to share short messages called tweets with each other. All the tweets are visible on a public timeline. These tweets have the valuable geospatial component and particularly time critical events. In this paper, our interest is in the rapid detection of disaster events such as tsunami, tornadoes, forest fires, and earthquakes. We describe the detection system of disaster events and show the way to detect a target event from Twitter data. This research examines the three disasters during the same time period and compares Twitter activity and Internet news on Google. A significant result from this research is that emergency detection could begin using microblogging service.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제6권9호
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• pp.445-456
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 트레이닝 데이터가 제한된 환경에서 n-gram 사전을 이용하여 불건전 정보를 포함하는 스팸 트윗을 탐지하는 방법을 제안한다. 불건전 정보를 포함하는 스팸 트윗은 유사한 단어와 문장을 사용하는 경향이 있다. 이러한 특성을 이용하여 스팸 트윗과 정상 트윗에 대한 n-gram 사전을 구축하고 나이브 베이스 분류기를 적용하여 효과적으로 스팸 트윗을 탐지할 수 있음을 보인다. 반면에, 실시간으로 대용량의 데이터가 유입되는 트위터의 특성은 초기 트레이닝 집합 구성에 매우 큰 비용을 요구 한다. 따라서, 초기 트레이닝 집합이 매우 작거나 존재하지 않는 환경에서 적용할 수 있는 스팸 트윗 탐지 방법이 필요하다. 이를 위해 트위터의 리트윗 기능을 활용하여 의사 라벨을 생성하고 초기 트레이닝 집합의 구성과 n-gram 사전 업데이트에 활용하는 방법을 제안한다. 2016년 12월 1일부터 2016년 12월 7일까지 수집된 한국어 트윗 130만 건을 사용한 다양한 실험 결과는 비교 방법들보다 제안하는 방법의 성능이 우수함을 입증한다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.376-387
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• 2017

본 연구는 트위터를 대상으로 트윗 공간 데이터에서 지리적 의미를 탐색하기 위한 방법을 모색하였다. 트윗 공간 데이터의 구축 과정 및 지리적 분석의 프레임워크를 정립하고 지리적 연구 방법론을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 제주도의 GPS 좌표 참조 트윗(geotweet)을 대상으로 트윗의 내용적 특성과 트윗 발생 위치의 공간 분포 특성을 확인하였다. 제주도 좌표 참조 트윗에서는 지명 또는 장소명이 많이 출현하였는데, 이는 자신의 위치를 알리고자하는 의도로 파악하였다. 트윗의 공간 분포는 제주공항을 중심으로 한 일부 관광지 주변으로 핫스팟이 확인되었고, 이는 제주도 유동인구 핫스팟과 유사한 패턴을 보였다. 주제 중심의 트윗 분석을 위해 본 연구에서는 토픽 모델링 알고리즘을 이용하여 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 주제의 지리적 위치와 트윗의 내용은 서로 관련이 있음을 알 수 있었다. 마지막으로 본 연구는 토픽 모델링 분석을 통해 방대한 트윗 데이터의 내용에 상응하는 지역 분포 특성을 직관적으로 확인하는데 유용하게 활용될 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.